The Last Piece: Giveaways

Giveaways

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Giveaway on Instagram!

GIVEAWAY TIME - ONLY ON INSTAGRAM! The lovely peeps at Alice Caroline Fabrics have sent me some of their beautiful new bespoke Liberty collection to have fun with, and some for you! ❤️

The fabric is available for sale NOW at the Alice Caroline website. ❤️

However! I know we could all do with a bit of a cheer up at the moment so I’ve used the bundle they sent for my own stash to make two large Weebraw Bags (pattern by Laura Cunningham at Sweet Cinnamon Roses).

There are two giveaways (one is open only to residents of VICTORIA. Melbourne and Vic peeps, I know you’re having a 💩 old time locked in down there!).

If you don't already follow me on Instagram, you'd better pop over there and read the post.

You won't want to miss a chance to win!

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Kaffe Competition Winner

The magic number generation thingo has done it's work, and the winner of the fat quarter bundle is comment number 36....

Alison Smallacombe!

And the winner of the jelly roll is comment number 82.....

Sandra Fletcher!

Congratulations on your win peeps, please email me with your addresses to [email protected] before November 16. If I haven't heard from you by then the prizes will be redrawn. Thanks and congrats! Happy stitching xx

Posted at 09:55 AM in Giveaways | Permalink | Comments (1)

Friday, November 04, 2016

Kaffe Fassett Artisan Blog Tour

Anyone who has any of my books will know how much I love Kaffe's fabric! His big blowsy florals in saturated colours have been one of my favourite things ever since I first saw them, many years ago now. It was really exciting for me when Free Spirit sent me his new collection and I saw this new direction he's headed off in. Of course there are his beautiful signature florals and some really really amazing spots, but it was the batiks, ikats and woven checks that really caught my attention.

When it came time to start stitching with this collection I had a little look back through the blog tour as I wanted to show you something a different than everyone else! I noticed that no one had done any applique so that being my thing....

I was ::supposed:: to be working with the blue colour way but I couldn't resist the sunny yellows for my background.... sorry Nancy ;)

I will admit that because of the hand work I didn't get a chance to quilt it, I hope you'll forgive me! That gives me another chance to post when it's quilted though, right?

The pattern is adapted from the Smile, Darn Ya quilt from my latest book, Old Quilts New Life. Its a fantastic way to showcase a lot of prints at once, and especially that wonderful floral in the centre. All the pinks and yellows really blended beautifully together to make the background sing, and I love the direction the zig zag gives the petals! I love sunflowers, they're so cheery and friendly.

Well I'm the last stop on this Artisan journey, so I hope you've all enjoyed your amazing travels through the beautiful things everyone has made - and maybe you won a prize along the way? If you didn't, here's one last chance to win a beautiful bundle or jelly roll of Kaffe Fassett fabric.

Comment on THIS post and tell me your favourite flower
One entry only per reader
Two winners will be selected by random number generator on Wednesday, November 9, 5pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Winners have 7 days to respond and after that time a new winner will be drawn by random number generator

The competition is open internationally. Good luck everyone, and look out for the Kaffe Fassett Artisan fabrics coming to a patchwork shop near you very very soon!

THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

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Wednesday, January 06, 2016

WORD PLAY - my New Craftsy Class!

I've got a very exciting announcement peeps! My new Craftsy Class, Word Play, is finally LIVE and ready for you to enroll. Im so thrilled with the class, it's going to be an absolute blast and I hope you'll all come and play with me and learn how to use different alphabets to play with words in your quilts. To celebrate the launch of the class

click this link for for 50% off the class!

Be quick like rabbits! :)

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Giveaway Winner and Good News!

I have FINALLY found five seconds to blog and tell you who the winner of the Snippits bundle is! Drumroll ladies and gents.... the winner is:

SandyN, who said:

"Wow... I would have to make some PJs, matching ones for my daughter.. and matching pillow cases...We would look hot"

Sandy I don't have an email address for you so please email me at [email protected] within 48 hours, otherwise I will have to re-draw. Congratulations! :D

As for the good news - I have had SO SO SO many of you asking about the delicious little apple pincushions in my Snippits catalogue. The good news is that clever chook Nicole Vaughan who made them for me, has agreed to make them for me to sell.

They will retail for $25 plus postage and they are available for preorder on my website - they will take a few weeks to arrive.

Also available for preorder right now - my NEW BOOK, Old Quilts, New Life! The book won't arrive until September/October so if you order a pincushion AND a book together, they won't come until then unless you place two seperate orders.

Posted at 06:45 PM in Giveaways, My Books | Permalink | Comments (1)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Ticket Winners!

The winners of the three pairs of tickets to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham are:

Sew Little to Say

Mary Emmens

Cara @pink_stitches

Congrats girls, I will email you shortly for your address details, and have a fantastic time at the show for me - I wish I was going too! :)

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Win Tickets to Festival of Quilts!

I've got such a fantastic, fun giveaway for you guys! Now I know that a lot of you won't be able to make use of these tickets, so please only enter if you can actually GET to the show :)

Because today - you can win tickets to Europe’s leading patchwork and quilting show, Festival of Quilts in the UK! The show is one of the best quilting events I've ever been to, and its held at the NEC, Birmingham, 6^th – 9^th August 2015.

Visit over 20 galleries from leading quilt artists and groups, shop from over companies selling specialist hard-to-find supplies and choose from a huge range of workshops and masterclasses or hear from the experts in one of the lectures. You’ll also find almost 1,000 quilts entered into competition from professions, amateurs, young and old. Nowhere else in Europe will you find such talent, colour and passion for quilting under one roof. To find out more, you can visit the Festival of Quilts website or follow them on Facebook.

I have three pairs of tickets to give away. To enter simply comment and tell me that you were planning to go to the show. PLEASE leave me your email address to contact you - winners drawn with with no email address will be drawn again. The competition closes on Sunday night - thats May 25, 5pm Sydney time. Tell all your friends quilty peeps, this is a good one!

COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED

Posted at 09:22 PM in Giveaways | Permalink | Comments (12)

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Giveaway Winner and Some Thoughts

Sorry to be a little late on the giveaway winner! The winner of a copy of Sam's lovely book is Kathy Davis, Kathy please send me your details to [email protected] and we can get your book out to you!

I feel my blog is severely neglected lately.... I wonder if blogging is becoming less needed due to social media? I know I spend a lot of my work related computer time on Instagram and Facebook. Especially when Quilt Market is on and I'm not there. I think this is the first time in ages I haven't been - while the relief of not having another overseas trip this year is huge, I miss all my friends and I miss not being there to SEE everything!!

The reason I'm not there is largely due to the huge piles of work surrounding me for my new book. The sewing hours are becoing terrifying as the deadline looms closer... I can't wait to be able to show you all though, this book is so exciting to me, and I hope it will be to all of you as well. It isn't due for release until October next year though so you will all have to wait - and I will have to get my skates on in a serious way!! I've also been working on this:

which if you follow me on Instagram you will know is my nect collection for Windmam! It's not out until next year so a little wait on that too but they let me give you a tiny sneak peek.

In other news, the Litle Quilts Blog Tour is over and all the peeps are starting to get their parcels! Take a hop around over the next few days to see what everyone has received and some of the amazing things we've all been making for each other.

http://mrsschmenkmanquilts.wordpress.com

http://pamkittymorning.blogspot.com

http://cactus-needle.blogspot.com/

http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com

http://poppyprintcreates.blogspot.com/

http://quiltdad.com

http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.com

A few of these peeps are at Market and so they may not yet have their parcels. Mine arrived the other day and I was SO SO excited to see that Lynn was my partner and I had been sent the gorgeous version she made of my Drawn Together quilt!! I had watched her put it together on Instagram and just LOVED it so much, hooray for it being all for me! Its going to live on my studio wall with other little quilts from the peeps over the years. Not only did she send the beautiful quilt, but a fab Union Jack mug and some scrummy Oakshotts too.

Speaking of quilts I am still being asked regularly whatever happened to my birthday quilt?

I've posted a few times about it but here again! Earlier this year I had a very bad bout of pneumonia and was in bed for the two weeks "personal stitching" time that I had allovated myself. Since then the full steam ahead and 16 hour sewing day nature of my timetable has meant that I haven't had a moment to sew my teacups together. If you didn't make me one and still wanted to you have time - I wont be putting it together until the book has gone to the publisher and I am back from teaching at New Zealnd Symposium in late January! I have hundreds of blocks which is just lovely and I am so thrilled. If I have too many (which I think I will) I will make two quilts and auction one off for charity.

Other than that life goes on as ever... my dad was awarded the Order Of Australia which was very exciting! We are all so proud of him.

And those boys of mine are getting bigger by the day. Charlie is 17 and is going into his final year of school, and Oscar is nearly 15 and is sport crazy and so fit it's ridiculous. The FOOD peeps, the FOOD!!

Anyway back to the sewing room..... ::cracks whip::

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Tuesday, September 02, 2014

Little Quilts Blog Tour and Giveaway!

Little Quilts has been out there in the world for a few weeks now, and thank you to everyone for all the love it has been receiving!We thought it was time we threw it a little launch party, so here it goes.

(Thanks Amy I have shamelessly pinched your extremely cute pic.)

Owing to the fact that the Little Quilts journey began with Amy and I sending each other little quilts in the post, we thought that rather than ye olde blog touring around to hear what everyone has to say, we would have a little Swap of our own! So we got together some of our favourite quilty peeps to play along.

Each stop on the tour will have a copy of the book courtesy of Cico Books to give away, starting with Amy and I. To enter my giveaway you can leave a comment on this post telling me some of your favourite quilty peeps. Please leave a comment with information I can contact you with - if there are no contact details I will redraw. My contest is open until September 8 at 5pm Sydney time, and then Miss Pam Kitty's contest will open so don't despair if you don't win! There's always another chance.

If you just cant wait to win I have the book and some associated templates for sale on my website so there's always that option!

Now the peeps will be posting and chatting as they go along about what quilt they are making for their Mystery Someone, their colour choices, the pattern they picked and so on and so forth so make sure you check in and see what they're all up to! I've added everyone's Instagram tags to the blog post details below so you can have a peek at their IG feeds and see what they're doing there should you be so inclined.

And no i just have to decide which quilt to make for my secret squirrel partner!! Hmmm..... tempting to make one of mine because I already know how to make them all :D How about What a Star, I love that one...